Stephanie DeGooyer
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prof @UNC / THE RIGHT TO HAVE RIGHTS @VersoBooks / BEFORE BORDERS @JHUPress / Writing book about asylum & another on unidentified remains
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I was at an inaugural ball in '08 & had the weird fortune to be next to Beyonce when she sang "At Last" to the Obamas.1st time looking back.
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I just don't understand how tenure track folks can be given an entire extra year and PhD students are given nothing, forced out in an epic recession without health care, etc.
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@jasoninmia
A mother of one of my students thought that tuition increases were tied to professor salaries LOL.
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I’m in lockdown with my students. This is terrifying.
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1) Stuck in traffic, processing. An ordinary graduate seminar suddenly became the day I dreaded most. Fear was immediate, but we were calm and collectively worked through what protocol we knew. Students were incredible…
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I know people who don’t like being edited. I love it. I want to cry every time I get back some of my work threaded with comments, queries, and corrections. I can’t believe this kind of attention still exists.
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I was at an event and my phone kept blowing up with messages. Checked on the break and happy to report: the Board of Trustees at UNC has approved my tenure and promotion to associate professor. The city is mine tonight!
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I’m working 12 hour days & still I can’t get to every email, attend every meeting, & write every page. I hate the constant feeling of being in arrears. It’s honestly worse than when I cared for a young child. Is it possible to dial back? Academia feels impossible right now.
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One of the favorite things I’ve written in a while - maybe my best ever - was just accepted with tear-inducing comments by editors at ALH. It’s on the refugee and asylum as settler concepts, and I can’t wait for you to read it...sometime in 2022 🙃
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I don’t feel ok. Thinking of one of our faculty members tonight and our students who should be learning. Thank you to everyone involved who apprehended the suspect, released locked down people, or just shared comfort.
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We have been released! I think they are releasing building by building now
I’m in lockdown with my students. This is terrifying.
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Yes. I’m grown a little tired of critiques of academic books when many “public” books today are churned out super fast, with minimal research, to grow an author brand more than anything.
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I am hopeful for the 5 people missing in the submersible that was heading to the Titanic, but what is it about “missing,” “vanished,” or “disappeared” people that sustains 24hr news in ways that hundreds of migrants dying at sea, for example, does not? A serious question…
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Some news! I have signed a contract with UNC-Chapel Hill. Not for basketball :) I will be joining the ECL department next July! We decided to move to Chapel Hill a year early as my Burkhardt fellowship at UCLA for is now in remote mode.
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He had a two young children and was a wonderful colleague and friend. Heartbreaking memorial of Dr. Yan
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Here's the cover for my book. I'm still getting used to the design, but I love the painting by Norman Lewis
("Migrating Birds"):
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Our student journalists are simply incredible…
The front page of tomorrow's
@dailytarheel
–
I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours.
Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.
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I am at home safe, but there has been another shooting on campus and we have been alerted that there is still an active shooter. My students and colleagues are locking down. All the fears rise up again. THIS CAN"T BE HAPPENING AGAIN.
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Just submitted my manuscript 😛
Now to work on correcting my posture and weaning myself off gummie bears.
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I've received that news that my book has published & I will soon receive a copy! I will share more soon. For now, the acknowledgements say everything (although I continually lie awake at night fearful I have forgotten somebody).❤️
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Surprisingly moved to see this pic of Charlotte Bronte’s child book from the NY Book Fair (shared by Patti Smith). Sold by Nobody, Printed by Herself.
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The feminist bookstore In Other Words strikes out against Portlandia, calling it transphobic, white and gentrifying.
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Thrilled to announce I have been awarded a Lando grant to write my new book, “Offshore: the Rise & Fall of Asylum!” I can’t believe it. ❤️
CONGRATULATIONS to our 2024 LANDO Grantees, Writers of Note, & Finalists!
Thank you for sharing your exciting work with us. We look forward to following your success!
To learn more about this year's LANDO grantees and finalists, visit 📚
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There is no way I can be isolated at home 24 hours with my child and still be teaching - how are people planning to do this?
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1. I wanted to share two recent articles I have written that speak to the history of denaturalization in America and why the current administration is furthering previous efforts to strip citizens of citizenship
The US Department of Justice announced today that it will create a new section to review denaturalization cases, which will further the government's efforts to strip Americans of citizenship. Here's why we're alarmed:
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@kjhealy
What is an "ordinary departmental talk" - is there flying involved, time off from one's work/family? I think compensation for labor is important. Dinner seems like a nice gesture, but the idea of flying to give a talk for free is an expectation that no other field would have.
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Omg, I kid you not! Someone is reading Waiting for Godot in the DMV lobby!
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“The pandemic has been raging for nearly a year. It is understandable that people in rich nations want to restore some kind of normalcy in their lives. But now is the time to demand...the liberation of the vaccine from big pharma.“
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We all want a vaccine, and we all love Dolly Parton and a 'good immigrant' story. But let's not become cheerleaders for the for-profit pharmaceutical industry.
@srinmurthy99
and I on what we can do to ensure a Covid vaccine gets global distribution:
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The best thing I am doing to help students cope during the online phase of our seminar? Removing *Jude the Obscure* from the syllabus.
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Serious question: has sociology become the dominant frame/methodology for lit studies these days?
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4) Horrible Update. A faculty was killed. For 3+ hours my class and others sat in silence, winced at noise, tried to parse online accounts, & even told jokes. My students are my heroes, but to know that a faculty member was killed has me scared for this precious relationship.
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I can’t tell you the number of times in academia a colleague has yawned away the economic plights of junior faculty or grads only to later expose they have their kid in 60k a year boarding school or bazillion dollar kindergarten.
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“Forgetting to have a baby.” Also known as trying to secure a job or make tenure in academia.
It was announced over the weekend that Cambridge University is introducing fertility seminars to teach its female students to start planning to have children by their mid-30s or risk ‘forgetting to have a baby’ 🧵
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We will see how she gets revised over next months, but for now this puppy is a complete draft!
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Just submitted my final edited manuscript. Book ends with a call for more rigorous work on globalism, internationalism, & law (especially as envisioned by lit scholars), as well as for longer histories of immigration (also a brief response to the rise of affirmative reading). 💃
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Advice. A friend who is a *visiting* assistant prof just got a MUCH better offer to be a *visiting* assistant prof at an R1. The dean of the school he is at says they could sue him for breach of contract if he pursues it, threatening him to stay. Any thoughts?
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I don’t think I can read past this…30,000???
“At that meeting, professors submitted their big-ticket spending requests. Thomas received $31,500 to support various projects and conference travel, the most of any department member, according to the meeting minutes.”
The more insane this got, the more familiar it sounded.
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I have tried using Chat GPT the past few days to test out historical stuff I teach. It makes up quotations and facts. It is completely unusable, yet my students have been told it's ok to use for research if they cite it?
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2) We discovered that the lockdown button near our door did not work - a fancy new red button that said “lockdown”. Teachers, please learn the locks for your classrooms and test them. I clutched a glass lunch box as a projectile - tragic comic.
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3. For the
@BostonReview
I argue, amongst other things, and with Hannah Arendt, that denaturalization is a legal procedure that creates second-order citizenship for naturalized subjects:
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Promotion package due in a few days, but here I am ironing money because I’m solo parenting & my daughter lost her tooth before bed & I had to raid her piggy bank when she wasn’t looking & now I’m ironing the money so she won’t think it’s hers & I deserve an award people!
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1) Since the spring, the media has basically ignored vaccine politics. Until recently there was little coverage of plans for global distribution. We consumed Trump, Trump, Trump and slept on vaccine distribution and production injustices.
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I am now able to exercise one of the highest forms of privilege I could imagine as a grad/young scholar:
going to MLA for the “hang.”
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Favorite contributions to “theory of the novel” from the last 5 years?
@V21collective
@LKonstan
@bcqer
@mervatim
@readsthepapers
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@ztsamudzi
I co-wrote a book on Arendt and completely agree about the deep contradictions in her work, especially her anti-Black racism. She is not above reproach and now more than ever we need to *think* what it is *she* was doing in her work and life rather than absolve and canonize her.
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I finally teach at a university with a faculty lounge and it’s glorious!
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Reviewer 7 for the NEH fellowship I didn’t get: “Political perspective should be more neutral. Some statements/terms show the political view of the applicant. Some word change will be more appropriated for the NEH fellowship.”
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3) More to say, and learn from this experience. I’m so sad for all the students, staff, and faculty who had to go through this. I hope nobody is hurt 😢
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Holy shit. Pitting artists, musicians, and writers against people dying of Covid in the name of protecting copyright is the most disingenuous spin I have ever seen.
Excellent reporting.
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This incredible person sent me her book with a note telling me I didn’t have to read it. What hilarity! This is top of the pile today. Congrats and happy pub day
@astradisastra
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I didn’t get an NEH summer stipend, but what I did get was excellent, exhilarating feedback. In previous years, I selected lit & 18c as fields of study. I received a lot of cranky—and in one case unethical—feedback from jurors. For my new project, I selected law and history & 🙌
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Incredible! A review essay of my book by the brilliant Princeton law scholar Bob Spoo! Spoo seriously probes my literary claims alongside Elizabeth Anker's new book. I would quibble w/ the postcritique association (below), but this is a great convo:
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I am loving the solidarity from people in my fields around the proposed cuts at WVU. Academics have been blamed--by ourselves & others--for not being charismatic, too interdisciplinary, too insular, & out of touch. But the biggest threat to our disciplines is elsewhere.
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I am DELIGHTED to share the first published piece to emerge out of my Public Humanities grad seminar. Ariannah Kubli writing a positive piece (for a change) about how the humanities are thriving off campus at places like Durham's Night School Bar....
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My heart just stopped. WOW.
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I'm having one of those days. I just don't know how anyone succeeds, at their career, life, friends, when they have to watch a small child on their own - it feels impossible.
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Maybe now is a good time to announce that I’ll be in California all next year at UCLA? Going to bed on the east, looking forward to returns from the west in the morning.
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I don’t think the issues are that there isn’t enough charisma in the classroom & literary criticism is too negative—though I cede the point about book reviews. We face massive disinvestment: in our schools, teachers, and publications. It’s hard to stay positive about that.
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I was talking to a grad student who said something like, it is not enough to write a book/dissertation. Today you have to theorize a new way of reading in your first chapter...
Reparative
Symptomatic
Close
Middle
Distant
Reductive
Weak
Surface
What else?
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Tenure is mostly a good thing, but there is a particular brand of tenured academic we need to upend: he who after realizing he will never move or better his position at another school, uses his power and appointment to try and sabatoge the advancement of his colleagues.
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This is a huge ask and I anticipate silence. But...are there any editors out there (academic/non-academic) who might want to Zoom into my Public Humanities graduate seminar for 30 minutes tops? I am trying to scrounge up a modest fee, but public university y'all...
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@esdsantos
You will likely be bombarded with requests for service and advising, but the tenure committee will mostly care about research. Remind yourself often that you need to say no to many requests and it will be ok if you do.
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All the people out there resuming their normal activities and getting on with their lives: I envy them. I was just getting there and now I am shaking like I’ve had ten cups of coffee. How is this a new normal for us?
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Very excited to announce this collaboration. We had our first editorial meeting today!
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Retweeting again because I’ve been thinking about this all night.
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Completed a draft for a senior seminar I am teaching on disappearance in the fall. I’d love more reading recommendations:
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My sister is a hospital housekeeper. She’s preparing for the impossible, putting into place the sanitation protocols that will keep everyone safe. My hero (plus she offered to have me come live with her and eat of her freezer)
You’ve probably never looked at them twice, and now they are the heroes of this pandemic. They don’t get to work from home, are paid low wages, and expose themselves daily to a dangerous virus just to keep us safe. Cleaners deserve your respect and kindness today and everyday ❤️
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We often talk of people (mostly men) who write scholars offensive or critical emails. But recently the opposite has been happening. Strangers have been writing to simply say they appreciated an article I wrote. A wonderful kindness during bleak times.
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After ten years, my partner has decided we need a common interest. And so tonight, on the basis of one film watched alone in the living room, he has declared that interest:
Samuel Beckett.
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I have been in this position before and know that searches are often called off way too early. Please
@MountRainierNPS
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4. We should be nervous about the new “Denaturalization Section” announced yesterday by the Department of Justice. Its goal, as I argue in the articles above, is to create fear amongst immigrants. Fear is the cheapest form of border control.
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I am undone! Undone! I have long admired David Herd’s scholarship and activism. To have my book reviewed with such care and understanding by him, and framed alongside Slaughter and Stonebridge, is simply extraordinary. I am so glad it has registered where I most hoped…
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Professor salaries are *not* the reason for tuition hikes.
What‘s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?
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Thinking about this today: as I tell my grads, it is easy to be critical, to be a critic, of what we read. You start with an object in front of you & find its deficiencies. You are never in question, only the work. More difficult is to find its value & what you can bring to it.
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“ It was hard to tell if they were announcing themselves as officers or if they were the shooter,” Bredar said. “It was confusing.”
Students who were locked down for 3 hours described a terrifying situation as they waited for any updates and for the all-clear.
They hid in closets and bathrooms, unsure when it would all be over.
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To the student in the elevator who just told me that she likes my new bangs: I needed you and you are doing the Lord’s work. 🙏🏻
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Groupwork has always been a staple of my in person teaching. Now with Omicron it feels unsafe to huddle students into groups. Just another example of a small, everyday thing that has become overthought and anxiety-inducing these past 2 years.
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“...the message that the students are sending, and that I feel as a faculty member here, is that they deserve a liberal-arts education because everybody deserves a liberal-arts education, and we should be defending public higher ed everywhere..."
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In what was the hardest - and worst - summer on record for me I somehow managed to pass my driver’s test! 🚗 1/4
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I picked up my book today to check something and was astounded by a realization: it is really good! It's a slow burn, modest in its ambition (but I am a fan of critical modesty), & knows it is for a small readership--but it is a good book.
Happy Friday!
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@zeynep
Yes indeed. In 2019, there was a measles outbreak amongst children in Portland. It sent many families scrambling for vaccination. My father was a polio survivor. Doesn’t surprise me that 70+ people are getting vaccinated,
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I really wish AHA and MLA were combined. It would be so much more efficient and interesting for everyone, especially me.
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Here is me, arguing that we need to need to move beyond birthright for a variety of reasons.
Amidst chants of "
#SendHerBack
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Our latest from
@Stevie_DG
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I’ll take the good with the bad today. I don’t know who nominated me, but honestly the pleasure of teaching and surviving alongside these students was all mine.
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With Dr.
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Being on campus is a lot right now. But there is nothing quite like the intoxicating energy of uni students during their first week. I feel like someone just turned on a sun lamp in my life.
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This came on my FB feed today and I can’t stop thinking about it as the best example of cruel optimism and late capitalism ever:
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With libraries closed and all of us tucked in "social distancing," we will need books. Please, please, please do not order from Amazon. Powell's delivers and will need the business.
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People tell me that my child is not likely to get really ill from Covid. Be that as it may, her school will shut down for 10 days—probably on a revolving basis— leaving me with a kid at home & an order to teach in person.
None of these mask/vaccine optional policies make sense.
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Everytime I open up a free JSTOR document I think of Aaron Swartz.
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